Sunday, October 25, 2009

WGAL.com | 3 earthquakes hit Dillsburg, Pennsylvania today - Sunday, October 25, 2009


VIDEO: Earthquakes Shake Dillsburg Residents

3 More Earthquakes Rock York County Ground Shook in Dillsburg Early Saturday Morning

People in York County felt the Earth move under them again. A series of three earthquakes hit around 7:20.The first happened at 7:19, then a bigger one at 7:22, with another one a few minutes later. One woman told police the earthquake shook pictures on the wall in her home.Earthquake expert Charles Scharnberger says one of the quakes had a magnitude of 2 or 3.Scharnberger says there's unstable rock that is clashing and creating the quakes. More than 600 earthquakes have happened in the Dillsburg area since last October.

http://folkworm.ceri.memphis.edu/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes0.html
    MAG    DATE    LOCAL-TIME  LAT     LON    DEPTH    LOCATION
y/m/d h:m:s deg deg km
map 2.8  2009/10/25 06:21:57 40.092N 76.999W  0.5    3 km ( 2 mi) NE  of Franklintown, PA
map 1.8 2009/10/25 06:18:42 40.075N 76.987W 0.5 4 km ( 2 mi) E of Franklintown, PA
map 2.6 2009/10/25 06:16:13 40.089N 76.998W 0.5 3 km ( 2 mi) ENE of Franklintown, PA